Shocker

Saw Shocker. It was a very silly and uneven horror about some murderous electricity-mage who naturally gets the electric chair making him stronger than ever. So, it's up to one football player who is probably his son to take him down. There are warning signs of shaky movie-logic everywhere in the plot, but post-hoc rationalizations are usually forth-coming. There is a really important thing which the footballer's girlfriend never actually tells him (it's not a plot point, I think there's just a scene missing.) The film is also not very scary. There's a few jumps, but mostly the footballer and murderer are rolling around punching and kicking which is not exactly creepy.

The best part of the film is the televisions everywhere. Craven tries to make television into a great evil (possibly into the devil, as is implied at one point.) Endless scenes of televisions showing that clip of a house being blown up by a nuclear bomb, footage of Cambodia, footage of Kent State, etc. It's very weird and neat. This climaxes with a brilliant and delightfully fun chase scene that I won't ruin. So, not a terribly scary or clever film, but a fairly fun one.